April Wanderings

Happy Spring Adventurers!! 🧙‍♀️🌱✨

It's been a moment since we've spoke, but after a relaxing post-album break last month I'm now back with new music to share with you!

The Celtic Goddess Brigid contains 3 aspects in mythology: the healer, the wise poet, and patroness of smith craft and the hearth. Thus, she is associated with fire and life, and all types of creativity. While you may not personally be a metal crafter, you can think of her connection to smithery and fire as an allegory for that passion and spark that comes when you’re creating (forging!) something you love. She’s also related to the arrival of spring (in itself a fresh burst of nature's creative energy), and with the snow now melted here and green sprouts beginning to appear it seemed like the perfect time to create something inspired by her lore. 📚

‘Ember’ blends Celtic folk instruments with orchestral sounds and is accented by sparkling metallic strikes as percussive elements. I consider it a sort of part two to ‘Beneath The Earth’ because of this, but while the energy of BTE is cold and mysterious (the arrangement is more spacial, and I ‘see’ the music in cool colors) ‘Ember’ is cozy, jaunty, and visually warm colored to me. 🔥

Here is the process of the video art, from rough pencil sketch to watercolor painting:

I hope you enjoy 'Ember' and have a wonderful April!

Stay magical,

June 💜